Hope Talk – The End as Well as the Beginning Louise Lee Hsiu & Tom Su For Louise Lee’s children, wherever she resides will always be “home.” As a writer, keeping a curious heart allows her to keep the gate of creativity flowing. Currently, in the beautiful land of Canada, she continues to create, writing in…
Love, Binti Love, Binti Having collected 900 kg of shoes to donate to Kenya during the Vancouver festival in 2016, TAIWANfest partners once again with a social cause to support the “Love, Binti” project. Join us at the BeWithU area at TAIWANfest in crafting reusable sanitary pads to be donated to girls in need in…
Hope Talk – Tales from Yangmingshan Louisa Hsu Louisa is a fourth year Geography major and Biology minor student at the University of British Columbia. She enjoys hiking and watching interior design shows in her free time. Like many students who are transitioning into life as an adult, Louisa is uncertain what she wants to…
Hope Talk – Shadows of the Crimson Sun Dr. Yang & Julia LinSanxia Spintops Born in Taiwan under Japanese occupation. Raised in Manchukuo under Japanese control Retrocession of Taiwan. Received Canadian citizenship after immigrating to North America. The many identities of Dr. Charles Yang. He lingers in the influences of different cultures and felt the lessons of every…
Hope Talk – Forgotten Legends: Bunya Koh Mei-Lien Liu The heartbreaking tale of Bunya Koh is the story of a young musician and composer, a rising star in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, forgotten in the annals of time and a testament to what might have been for an artist of that era….
Hope Talk: Twelve-year-old Piano Sensation Hao Wei Lin Hao-Wei Lin Like many arts, Western classical music was introduced to Taiwan during the period of Japanese colonization in Taiwan, with numerous Taiwanese born musicians such as Bunya Koh trained under Japanese masters. With a head start over many other Asian nations, Taiwan has since earned a…
The Paper Play – A Forgotten Media Min-Chuan Chiang In today’s age of big data and ad-blockers many of yesterday’s media are forgotten. Yet the era of paper-based mass communication through paper has not yet truly ended. A Taiwanese collector, Mr Min-Chuan Chiang, has collected matches, matchbooks, and matchboxes produced across the world spanning over a…
Hope Talk – Art of the Japanese Fan Keita Yamamoto Among the most symbolic of Japanese art forms is the hand fan; strips of hinoki (Japanese cypress) connected by thread, covered with paper backing some of the most beautiful and elegant artwork. The paper fan has a long history, originating from China as the rigid…
The Paper Play – Superhero On Paper Ning Hsieh To call seventeen-year-old Ning Hsieh a fan of paper craft would be a serious understatement. Combining his love for the versatility of paper and the wonder of Western comics, many of Ning Hsieh’s crafts result in life-sized pieces of superhero costumes. In much the same way…